The Big Jump

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Steve Jaeger takes you back to his last summer in Coney Island, when he was finally tall enough to ride the Parachute Jump.

Video: Hero Bus Driver Catches Child Who Fell 3 Stories

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“‘I just prayed that I’d catch her,’ Stephen St. Bernard recalled after rescuing the child yesterday. He did.”

Dreams Ignored: When the Person Gets Lost in the Player

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Joshua Corey Johnson revisits the book that archived his high school basketball days and talks about how letting sports put his true dreams on hold was his biggest mistake.

Hooray for the Hot Dog

Americans consume the most hot dogs in the world (despite whatever it is that’s actually in them).